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dapples

dapples is the plural of dapple.

dapples is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dapple.

Meaning of dapple

Noun

dapple (plural dapples)

  1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
    • “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCO...

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Questions about dapples

What is dapples the plural of?
Dapples is the plural of dapple.

Words near dapples in the dictionary

  1. dapple-throats
  2. dappled
  3. dappled light
  4. dappledness
  5. dappleness
  6. dapples
  7. dappling
  8. dapplings
  9. DApps
  10. dappy
  11. Dappy hat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dapples (page history and authors); dapple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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